Spoilers Star Wars: Resistance season 2 discussion

[Shawnster]

I don't think Episode 3, Live Fire, was filler. I really think the Aces learning to work together as a team or squadron is going to come back to be a factor at the end of the season.

Some of the others are much more filler. True, we need to see how they are getting food, so Hunt on Celsor was necessary. Perhaps some of the ideas from Hunt, Relic Raiders, and Quick Salvage Run could have been combined into one episode, but we're limited with the half hour format.

Still, even these fillers have served a point.
E02 acquire needed hyperdrive fuel
E04 acquire needed food
E06 acquire other needed fuel
E07 acquire other needed resources
E09 acquire needed money

The Colossus wasn't planning on being a mobile base. It lacked the resources to be a mobile base. Once it left Castilon they needed to resolve their lack of supplies if they wanted to make it anywhere. With the misjump not taking them to D'Qar their need became even more desperate

I've not read any spoilers or advance material, so I don't know if this is spelled out, but I think Tora's mom is going to make a return appearance. And I think it's clear from a story arc that by the end of the season Tam will return to the Colossus and all will be forgiven.

 

[Tuskin38]

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[The Wormhole]

That totally isn't Domhnall Gleeson, is it?

 

[BillJ]

Is this a show that is worth bothering with? Looking for something to watch on Disney+.

 

[The Wormhole]

Is this a show that is worth bothering with? Looking for something to watch on Disney+.

I don't regret watching it, but I wouldn't call it must-see TV either.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

It really depends on the episode. Some weeks it's good and other weeks it a bore.

 

[The Wormhole]

Pretty much, though even when it's good, it's yet to blow me away with an episode that makes me sit back and say "that was awesome, I need more." By this point, Rebels had certainly done quite a few such episodes.

 

[BillJ]

I only made it about ten minutes into the second episode. It was exceedingly dull, and none of the characters clicked for me.

Though the animation was nice.

 

[kitik]

Decent episode this week.

Kaz and Neeku's technician disguises are one of the best things this show has done.

Is this a show that is worth bothering with? Looking for something to watch on Disney+.

If you've already finished Clone Wars and Rebels and still want more animated Star Wars, then go for it I guess. It's definitely not as good as those two though. And that's even after an extremely slow first nine or ten episodes. It took forever to get going, and it's still not going anywhere near as interesting as Clone Wars or Rebels.

Best advice to get through the first half of season 1 is to probably just binge a whole bunch of episodes in a day or two.

 

[The Wormhole]

General Hux really came off as a cartoon caricature of himself this week, which is something considering his depiction in the movies is already basically yelling theatrically anyway.

 

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[David cgc]

Decent episode this week.

Kaz and Neeku's technician disguises are one of the best things this show has done.

I hadn't realized that I actually missed the stupid (but labor-saving) face-covering variants of Imperial uniforms from Rebels. The full-head version of the gunner helmets at least makes more sense than the oversized caps we use to get.

 

[The Wormhole]

I hadn't realized that I actually missed the stupid (but labor-saving) face-covering variants of Imperial uniforms from Rebels. The full-head version of the gunner helmets at least makes more sense than the oversized caps we use to get.

Oh, man, I loved those guys with the oversized caps covering their faces!

 

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[The Wormhole]

Yeager's involved this week. Been awhile since he really did anything relevant.

 

[The Wormhole]

Spoiler: Rise of Skywalker plot point

I don't know if this was a case of production deadlines didn't align to make this possible, or they wanted to keep a surprise for the movie, but given Rise of Skywalker reveals General Hux was leaking First Order intel to the Resistance, it seems a missed opportunity they didn't set this up somehow when he was on the show last week.

 

[David cgc]

Spoiler: The Rise of Skywalker

I have to say, tracing the First Order’s black market supply lines has lost a lot of its fun when I know they’re just going to be handed a secret fleet on a platter, and their regular fleet is going to be taken down as soon as Lando gives a smile and a wink on his five-minute galactic recruiting tour.

 

[Reverend]

Spoiler: The Rise of Skywalker

I have to say, tracing the First Order’s black market supply lines has lost a lot of its fun when I know they’re just going to be handed a secret fleet on a platter, and their regular fleet is going to be taken down as soon as Lando gives a smile and a wink on his five-minute galactic recruiting tour.

Well...

But yeah, knowing that they weren't going to finish the season before the movie came out is bound to take away at least a little of the tension. But then the same was often said about season 1 in regards to TFA & TLJ. While I wolnd't trade Rebels or anything, really, this show should really have come out in 2016 at the latest to properly build up the story, characters and give them a chance to wrap it up *before* the saga finale.
Clearly though Disney and/or Lucasfilm were either unwilling or unable to produce two animated Star Wars shows in parallel.

 

[David cgc]

It's not so much knowing the end as knowing that nothing in Resistance can possibly contribute to the setting at large in the way Rebels or Rogue One did, since what happened in the movie was so out of left field.

 

[kitik]

Ax Tagrin was a decent addition, a seriously intimidating threat. Multiple characters combined still couldn't handle him.

And holy smokes, CB-23 scraping the wall is definitely one of the highlights of the whole series!

When I saw how this episode ended, I thought it might be some sort of midseason finale, and we'd have to wait a few months to see the conclusion. But nope, I see a new episode is scheduled for next weekend already. And they're going to end the series quickly. Regular weekly episodes on January 5th and 19th, but the weekend of January 12 will see 2 new episodes drop. And the double-sized series finale will air on January 26.

I assume they're trying to rush through the end of Resistance so it'll be done when they launch Clone Wars season 7 in February.

Slightly off topic, but if they give us the 12 episodes of TCW season 7 weekly (though I suppose they could do 2 per week), we'd have new Star Wars throughout February, March, and April. With Resistance season 2, Mandalorian season 1, and Clone Wars season 7, (plus Episode 9!), that's an incredible sequence of new Star Wars we'll have gotten over a span of 7 or so months.